Balzac, Honoré de

Cultural  

1. A nineteenth-century French author. In his long series of novels known as La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy), he portrayed the complexity of contemporary French society.

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Example Sentences

Balzac, Honoré de, expanded his novels in proof, 15.

From The Booklover and His Books by Koopman, Harry Lyman

Balzac, Honoré de, x, xii, xiii, 53, 56, 153, 160, 180; Eugénie Grandet, 168; Human Comedy, 160.

From Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker

Balzac, Honoré de, 397; on women, 346; death of, 433.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various

Balzac, Honoré de, xiv, xvi, xvii, 55, 58, 157, 163, 184;  Eugénie Grandet, 173;  Human Comedy, 163.

From A Manual of the Art of Fiction by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker